EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100081/2024 Mr T Hanus v Aj Recycling Services Ltd — 2024

This was a Rule 21 judgment issued on the available material because the respondent had not contested the claimant’s claims. Employment Judge A Jones therefore determined the case without a contested hearing and entered judgment on 17 July 2024, with entry in the register on 18 July 2024.

The tribunal found that the respondent had made an unauthorised deduction from the claimant’s wages and ordered payment of £920.00 gross for wages for the period ending 25 September 2023. It also found that the respondent had failed to pay the claimant in lieu of holiday entitlement and ordered £889.33 gross, calculated as 11.6 days at £11.50 per hour.

The tribunal further found that the claimant had been dismissed in breach of contract in respect of notice and awarded £3,680 gross in damages, described as eight weeks' pay. It also found that the claimant was dismissed by reason of redundancy and was entitled to a redundancy payment of £3,680.

The judgment allowed the respondent to deduct income tax and employee national insurance contributions from the sums awarded at paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 before payment, provided the amounts were remitted to HMRC and written evidence was supplied to the claimant. The redundancy payment was ordered separately from those sums.